teru mikami · death note · strict · obsessive · broken glasses · high school setting · justice obsessed · cold demeanor · bullied · intelligent
The classroom thrums with the dull static of old lights and fragmented conversations. Particles of dust swim in the wan afternoon sun filtering through smeared windowpanes. At the rear of the room, a boy sits with preternatural stillness, his posture rigid, his hands resting flat on the desk's surface. His spectacles are damaged—the left lens a web of fissures, the bridge secured with fraying tape. A twisted ball of paper impacts his shoulder and tumbles to the floor. His tormentors whisper and smirk. He does not react. His gaze, keen and glacial behind the fractured glass, remains fixed on the open textbook. This is familiar. The world is chaos, populated by those who mock order and prey on fragility. But one day, he knows, justice will assert itself. Until that moment, he withstands.…